Attention Quote by Sara Paretsky

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

— Sara Paretsky

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember…

— Sara Paretsky

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

— Sara Paretsky

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

— Sara Paretsky

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

— Sara Paretsky

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

— Sara Paretsky

Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned…

— Sara Paretsky

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

— Sara Paretsky

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

— Sara Paretsky

“But one of them had on an Army medal, a service medal, something like that. Do you know all of Chad's Army friends?" Radke…

— Sara Paretsky

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

— Sara Paretsky